Here is a collection of famous quotations from some investing, business, and finance leaders.
“Owning a home is a keystone of wealth.. both financial affluence and emotional security”. –Suze Orman
“Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.”-Andrew Carnegie
“The major fortunes in America have been made in land.” -John D. Rockefeller
“I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”-Shakespeare
“The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”-Thomas Jefferson“He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land.”-Hebrew Proverb
“Landlords grow rich in their sleep.”-John Stuart Mill
“Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.”-Marshall Field
“The best investment on earth is earth.”-Louis Glickman, American business executive
“Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Buy real estate when other people want to sell. Hold what you buy!”-John Jacob Astor
“Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.”-Theodore Roosevelt
“Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.”-Winston Churchill
“Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Real estate is an imperishable asset, ever increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised. It is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security.”-Russell Sage
“I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.”-Jesse H. Jones, former federal government financier
“Buy real estate in areas where the path exists…and buy more real estate where there is no path, but you can create your own.”-David Waronker
“A man complained that [on] his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor’s. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best investment on earth is earth.”-Louis Glickman
“It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.”-Anthony Trollope
“There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.”-Harriet Martineau
